[ADDENDUM: March 23, 2011 I just wanted to direct readers to three items I have written, two of which are free. I offer them since the issue below gets into the issue of monotheism in Israel. First, there is a pre-publication version of an article that was published...
Paleobabble (Misreading Texts)
Ahmed Osman: No Stranger to Revisionist PaleoBabble
Ahmed Osman has authored a number of books promoting fringe revisionist history with respect to ancient Egypt and the Bible (basically, the intersection of the two). His books have apparently sold well (no surprise there). Here are some titles (I love the one with the...
Promotion of Racist Theories Using the Bible
I recently discovered a book that I can’t wait to read called Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (author: David Livingstone; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). The book is about how, in response to Darwinism, certain...
Serpent and Eve PaleoBabble FollowUp
Some of you may have noticed that there has been recent discussion on this thread on the PaleoBabble site. Apparently someone who desperately wants to say the serpent and Eve had sex to (not sure) defend Zecharia Sitchin or some sort of sexual activity between...
Now Jesus Didn’t Die on a Cross…or Did He?
A nice treat for us — some scholarly paleobabble! Readers may have seen or heard the “news” that, according to scholar Gunnar Samuelsson, the gospels do not say Jesus died on a cross. This, my friends, is either a good example of sophistry or yet...
666 PaleoBabble
Someone kindly brought this piece of paleobabble to my attention recently. The site argues that certain Arabic letters/symbols visually resemble the Greek text of “666” in the book of Revelation. More accurately, the Arabic allegedly resembles the common...
New Testament Resurrection Theology Based on Ancient Egyptian Religion?
Anyone who has seen the internet video Zeitgeist likely recalls this assertion about New Testament theology. Those in academia know that Zeitgeist’s content is deeply flawed, but that hardly matters, since most of the people who buy into its ideas aren’t...
Another Great Moment in Pulpit PaleoBabble
Just when you think preaching can’t get any more insipid, you find yet another logic-defying sermon out there on the web. “Thanks” to the person who sent this to me. Some surface observations on the problems with this “Bible lesson”: 1....
Hieroglyphics and the “Symbolic” Meanings as “Translated” by Esotericists
It’s quite common online to run across people who claim to be Egyptologists arguing for “metaphysical” meanings of hieroglyphs. I’m thinking of people like John Anthony West, who by his own admission cannot read Egyptian. But in his mind, he...
Nimrod Mythology
Spend any time on the internet (especially Christian sites) and you’re bound to run into a pile of PaleoBabble about Nimrod, a character mentioned only in Genesis 10:8-9; 1 Chron. 1:10 (repeats Genesis 10:8); and Micah 5:6 (reference to the “land of...
The Name of Jesus: Does it Matter?
One of the most frequent email questions I get concerns the name “Jesus.” More specifically, the question goes something like this: “Isn’t the name ‘Jesus’ a pagan invention? Shouldn’t we say “Yeshua” or Yahshua”...
Great Moments in Pulpit PaleoBabble
Here’s a YouTube video that’s a real treat (if you like PaleoBabble on Sunday morning). The sermon is about “alpeh and tav” — the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The minister (?) equates this with the description of Jesus...
Even Scholars Do PaleoBabble
Readers may find April DeConick’s series on how the Jesus Seminar is “bankrupt” of interest (her word). April, a professor at Rice University, is by no means a defender of traditional orthodoxy with respect to Christianity. She views the Gnostic...
More on the “Gabriel’s Revelation” Tablet – Israel Knohl Responds
Israel Knohl addresses some of the concerns raised by April DeConick. Editor's note: because of potential loss of external content, link's main content is reproduced below:From https://forbiddengospels.blogspot.com/2008/08/letter-from-israel-knohl-addressing.html,...
Syllabic Silliness with Jordan Maxwell
NOTE :Â For proper viewing of foreign Egyptian and Hebrew characters, download the PDF version of this document – the blog messes up the fonts. One of the readers of PaleoBabble recently asked me to take a look at some of the claims of Jordan Maxwell. I’d...